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cattitude and I walked through the park, stopping to feed the mallards (and the herring gulls and Canada geese, who you can't really keep away). I pointed out all the crocuses I'd spotted yesterday, both the ones that had been there but closed when he'd walked by before, because it was cloudy, and the ones he hadn't noticed. In return, he showed me a periwinkle amongst the crocuses.
Then I went downtown and worked out: it was a bit shorter than ideal, because my hands and wrists were complaining after a while, which ruled out anything that required me to grip. After exercising, I walked a few blocks to Tea Den, a Chinese restaurant on Eighth Avenue: the food was good, as usual, but they've got flickery lighting now, so I may not go back for quite some time. But I saw a daffodil in bloom in the little plaza on the next block north, my first of Spring (as distinct from cut flowers or those in pots).
Uptown to 181st Street for rye bread. Ran into Amy Fass on exiting the subway, and we chatted for a few minutes; she's a long-time fannish acquaintance of mine, not someone I've ever been close to, but I saw her and said hi and we talked about work and the frustrations thereof (she's also a copyeditor). I stopped into the little Russian grocery, for no particular reason. They had half-sour pickles in the refrigerated case, so I got a quart. Also some peach nectar, once I found an ingredients list in a language I could read (español, rather than the Russian that most of the printing was in) and a bar of dark chocolate. Gruenbaum's for seeded rye bread, and then a florist just south of 181st for a pot of small daffodils, before I got on the bus uptown.
There are a lot of daffodils in bloom on the grounds of Dyckman House. Unfortunately, I won't be able to get close, because it's closed for renovations (it's a museum, the last farmhouse building in Manhattan), but they were all yellow and cheery even from a moving bus on the far side of Broadway.
Gym details:
Cardio, 31 minutes, top heart rate 159. I pushed the level (amount of resistance, on a scale of 1-20) higher than usual, at 9 quite a bit instead of 8, and a little while as high as 11. Turning it to 11 briefly then makes 9 feel easy by comparison.
Calf machine, 80 pounds, 3 sets of 12
Leg press, 270 pounds, 2 sets of 12 (I keep pushing on this one)
Seated leg curl, 90 pounds, 15, 9 [stopped because my leg felt like it was going to cramp]
Vertical chest press, 55 pounds, 2 sets of 11 (one set with each handle--the outer are supposed to be more effective, the inner easier for the shoulders)
Bicep curl, 40-pound bar, 12; 35-pound bar, 2 sets of 15
Tricep pulldown, 50 pounds, 15, 12; 45 pounds, 8 [I had problems with my hands/grip starting on the second set here, and reducing the weight didn't really help. Hence, I did the mat work and then stopped--I'd already done all the lower-body exercises I planned on.]
Crunches, 4 sets of 20
Back arches, 3 sets of 20
Yoga tree, 4 sets of {2 on each leg}
Stretches
cattitude and I walked through the park, stopping to feed the mallards (and the herring gulls and Canada geese, who you can't really keep away). I pointed out all the crocuses I'd spotted yesterday, both the ones that had been there but closed when he'd walked by before, because it was cloudy, and the ones he hadn't noticed. In return, he showed me a periwinkle amongst the crocuses.Then I went downtown and worked out: it was a bit shorter than ideal, because my hands and wrists were complaining after a while, which ruled out anything that required me to grip. After exercising, I walked a few blocks to Tea Den, a Chinese restaurant on Eighth Avenue: the food was good, as usual, but they've got flickery lighting now, so I may not go back for quite some time. But I saw a daffodil in bloom in the little plaza on the next block north, my first of Spring (as distinct from cut flowers or those in pots).
Uptown to 181st Street for rye bread. Ran into Amy Fass on exiting the subway, and we chatted for a few minutes; she's a long-time fannish acquaintance of mine, not someone I've ever been close to, but I saw her and said hi and we talked about work and the frustrations thereof (she's also a copyeditor). I stopped into the little Russian grocery, for no particular reason. They had half-sour pickles in the refrigerated case, so I got a quart. Also some peach nectar, once I found an ingredients list in a language I could read (español, rather than the Russian that most of the printing was in) and a bar of dark chocolate. Gruenbaum's for seeded rye bread, and then a florist just south of 181st for a pot of small daffodils, before I got on the bus uptown.
There are a lot of daffodils in bloom on the grounds of Dyckman House. Unfortunately, I won't be able to get close, because it's closed for renovations (it's a museum, the last farmhouse building in Manhattan), but they were all yellow and cheery even from a moving bus on the far side of Broadway.
Gym details:
Cardio, 31 minutes, top heart rate 159. I pushed the level (amount of resistance, on a scale of 1-20) higher than usual, at 9 quite a bit instead of 8, and a little while as high as 11. Turning it to 11 briefly then makes 9 feel easy by comparison.
Calf machine, 80 pounds, 3 sets of 12
Leg press, 270 pounds, 2 sets of 12 (I keep pushing on this one)
Seated leg curl, 90 pounds, 15, 9 [stopped because my leg felt like it was going to cramp]
Vertical chest press, 55 pounds, 2 sets of 11 (one set with each handle--the outer are supposed to be more effective, the inner easier for the shoulders)
Bicep curl, 40-pound bar, 12; 35-pound bar, 2 sets of 15
Tricep pulldown, 50 pounds, 15, 12; 45 pounds, 8 [I had problems with my hands/grip starting on the second set here, and reducing the weight didn't really help. Hence, I did the mat work and then stopped--I'd already done all the lower-body exercises I planned on.]
Crunches, 4 sets of 20
Back arches, 3 sets of 20
Yoga tree, 4 sets of {2 on each leg}
Stretches